This journal couldn't have been launched at a more timely moment for me; one of my classes is currently reading a history of scientific journals from the 16th to 19th centuries. Interestingly, peer review didn't develop arise until the mid-eighteenth century, and it was largely the result of the actions of one man, named John Hill, who published a work criticizing some of the more outlandish pieces to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, such as a report of a merman found washed ashore in Virginia, or "a proof of the incontestable fact that fish live in water." The Royal Society was so humbled that it henceforth set up a review committee to oversee all articles submitted for publication.
I'm doing a presentation in the class tomorrow on how grid networks are affecting scientific communication. Pace, the speed at which results are produced and disseminated, is going to be the main theme.
"Pace, the speed at which results are produced and disseminated, is going to be the main theme. "
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Excellent!
There will be more calls for meta-research to sift through the massive accumulation of journal articles for trends and major movements.